The performative act doesn't describe something but rather it does something in the world. This 'something' has the power to transform the world.
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emphasis upon process, materiality and social/perpetual change (a kind of art-activism) blurs the epistemological and ontological. - extreme/qualitative, participatory forms of research - does not separate subject and object.
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Bolt, following Brad Haseman has suggested that a focus upon tacit, embodied and material centric forms of knowledge might provide the grounds for the formulation of an alternative, discipline specific paradigm that might be positioned as the main concern of artistic research.
- Bolt and Barrett try to document a paradigm shift in ways of knowing.-> standard research proposal - reading, writing, arguing
-working with the world as opposed to trying to measure it.
Epistemology:
Tacit, rather than explicit
knowledge - knowing how rather than knowing 'that'
con: all very physical/ 'hands on apprenticeship' uni against.
Borgdoff and Actor Network Theory
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- i.e. as building a framework or institutions, organisations, pubications, conferences, government bodies, and funding agencies.
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' Actors in A.N.T can be human and non human.
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' e.g. Laurie Gries uses A.N.T to chart the life of Shepard Fairey's Obama Hope image.
